Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-19
STATE NEWS.

AFlo ttstitcO UDHU returned S4U,
| 92728. TIE fist ing outfits are valued
at $35. 43O and the business EN- ployed
about $50 men. Tire catch was $685.
600 pounds short Of that of the pre-
vious year.
LUMBERMEN say they have never
experienced a. better season for cutting
and skidding logs.
The iron excitement at Knapp.
Dunn County, still continues. Experts
have pronounced the ore in that
vicinity as good as that in the Goge-
bic iron range. One company is MAX
ing preparations to build large
boarding house on it's plant for the
| accommodation of the men it will have
at work in few days. Several car
loads of ore have been shipped East
| to be smelted.
Ia. A. CHADWICK, a. trainsman on the
Menomonie & Red Cedar Branch of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
| Railroad, fell off the train near Red
Cedar on the 18th, and was run over
and killed instantly. The deceased
lived at Wabash, MINI.
Rev. JOHN PATTERSON, of Cambridge,
attempted suicide while walking along
the street in Milwaukee, on the 18th,
| by cutting his throat with O. razor.
| Mr.. Patterson has been in mental i'll
| health since last October, when he
suffered a sunstroke, and at the time
OF the act was q patient at Turkish
bath establishment in that city.
The Mittelstaedt murder trial at
| Milwaukee, ended on the 18th with O.
verdict of acquittal.
| STEPHEN SALENTINE, aged 20, son of
| Matthias Salentine, q well-known
hardware merchant, OF Milwaukee,
shot himself through the head, at the
| Republican House, IN that city, on
the 18th. Temporary insanity was
| the cause.
VIM. w. NEWELL, one Of the most
diligert and sanguine prospectors in
Wisconsin, has in his possession g.
very fine specimen of kaolin, which he
| obtained not far from Eau Claire. He
says that the deposit of this variety
OF clay is abundant, and in remark
| ably pure state, where he made the
| find. This specimen is of q very clear
white, and entirely free from shell
mixture. Newell is confident there is
greater profit to be derived from the
development of the kaolin beds than
from the iron mines of Wisconsin.
CHRIST. A. WENNERBURG, a Swede
employed in Frazer's camp, in Eau
Claire County, was struck by falling
tree, which broke his neck, causing in
slant death.
RYAN, MCARDLE & BALLOON, plumb.
ers. steam and gas-ftters, of Eau
| Claire, have made an assignment for
| the benefit of their creditors to Benz.
j. Churchill. The liabilities are not
accurately known. The assets are
about 81, 900.
The farmers of several northern
counties, especially Barron and Pierce,
are eOout to try the experiment of
cultivating hickory trees, the saplings
to be used for hoop. poles. A large
number of orders tor hickory nuts
have been sent to Milwaukee and Chi
cago.
JACOB JEWELL is the new coroner of
Oneida County, and not Jacob Newell,
as has been previously reported.
?. e. WooD, of North Greenfield, is
confined to his home by q crushed
ankle, received by the falling of a tree
on Christmas.
THE escape of a notorious criminal
from the Eau Claire County jail has
just leaked out. The other night the
7. M. G. A. held services in the jail to
comfort the prisoners, who were let
out into the large cage for the occa-
sion. When the services were over,
James Sullivan, g. prisoner of many
| aliases and many ofenses turned up
his coat collar, rolled up the whites Of
his eyes, passed out unnoticed among
the Y. M. G. A. people, and madegood
his escape. He was in jail for an au-
daclous theft from a passenger coach
at the depot there of property belong
ing to a Chicago drummer.
G. W. ALLEN, recently nominated
by the President as postmaster at
Sturgeon Bay, is prominent Demo
GRAFT and lawyer. He is an old col.
lege mate Of Senator Spooner and of q
brother of Postmaster-G General Villas,
and has been a member of the State
Legislature.
The Florence Mining News reports
as follows the shipments from the
A~OA VAOAA AOn 1dOSCS. NdIQ uOCCO.
l.636,996 tons; Menominee, $685.
$50; Gogebic, 731, 743; Vermillion,
3O4, 1896. Grand total, $685.
tons.
A DECISION Ct the supreme court
holds that the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railroad Company cannot be
held liable for personal injuries re-
ceived in collision caused by the
wind blowing freight car along side
track and onto tbs main track.
M. j. BRIGGS, the newly-appointed
postmaster at Dodgeville, is lawyer
and has for several terms occupied a
seat in the Legislature.
HUBERT g., the infant son of David
Merit, g. painter living In Milwaukee,
died on the 18th from scalding re.
ceived some days before. The little
child was walking backward out of a.
pantry with d piece OF bread, unno-
ticed by its mother, when it fell into a
pail of hot water, and its back was
badly soaIded. No physician was
called, 3 salve secured at drug store
being applied, and the child fingered in